First of all, the thing I was trying to communicate was what kind of candidate you could get in the UK, the general gist being “someone who doesn’t have some limiting-reagent crippling their employment oppertunities to the point that $40k/year in Berkeley is the best offer that highly gifted candidate has”. (I have corrected it as such)
I didn’t say masters degree, I said masters degree level of general knowledge, big difference.
If you can’t tell someone is greatly held back from the details of their work history without asking questions about their mental health, then any mental illness is well-managed enough that it ceases to matter.
It should also go without saying that if you can get someone to do it in Berkeley for $40k, you can get the equivilent here for $15k. If the going rate is $65k+bonus+health insurance, I’d say don’t take for granted that someone’s promise that “yeah I’ll homeschool five kids for $50k minus premesis rent and employment-side costs” will actually happen, and if it does, they won’t stay in that role for anywhere near the time you’d want them to.
If your $50k-premisis rent system relies on ingroup friends being given a stipend for a fulltime job, that’s fine, but it is not comparable to what we would be able to do i.e. pay someone market rates without it being any kind of favour. If you want me to make estimates using the same degree of optimistic projections then we’re looking at around $10k all in if the teacher lived in the homeschool, had two roommates who worked fulltime, didn’t have to pay health insurance and just got all their living expenses paid plus a £200/month stipend. It could be done in theory, but it would require every optimistic assumption to be true.
We could shuffle the numbers about a bit, quadruple the class size and offer them $100k. But as a rule, if you wan’t to not get blindsided by cost overruns, you need to be quite pessimistic when making financial assumptions.
First of all, the thing I was trying to communicate was what kind of candidate you could get in the UK, the general gist being “someone who doesn’t have some limiting-reagent crippling their employment oppertunities to the point that $40k/year in Berkeley is the best offer that highly gifted candidate has”. (I have corrected it as such)
I didn’t say masters degree, I said masters degree level of general knowledge, big difference.
If you can’t tell someone is greatly held back from the details of their work history without asking questions about their mental health, then any mental illness is well-managed enough that it ceases to matter.
It should also go without saying that if you can get someone to do it in Berkeley for $40k, you can get the equivilent here for $15k. If the going rate is $65k+bonus+health insurance, I’d say don’t take for granted that someone’s promise that “yeah I’ll homeschool five kids for $50k minus premesis rent and employment-side costs” will actually happen, and if it does, they won’t stay in that role for anywhere near the time you’d want them to.
If your $50k-premisis rent system relies on ingroup friends being given a stipend for a fulltime job, that’s fine, but it is not comparable to what we would be able to do i.e. pay someone market rates without it being any kind of favour. If you want me to make estimates using the same degree of optimistic projections then we’re looking at around $10k all in if the teacher lived in the homeschool, had two roommates who worked fulltime, didn’t have to pay health insurance and just got all their living expenses paid plus a £200/month stipend. It could be done in theory, but it would require every optimistic assumption to be true.
We could shuffle the numbers about a bit, quadruple the class size and offer them $100k. But as a rule, if you wan’t to not get blindsided by cost overruns, you need to be quite pessimistic when making financial assumptions.